Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . ous phases of life andnature in Danish Greenland, which have been so oftenand so well described by travellers. This volume hasto do with hitherto unknown or little understood as-pects of North Greenland, and with experiences, someo
Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . ous phases of life andnature in Danish Greenland, which have been so oftenand so well described by travellers. This volume hasto do with hitherto unknown or little understood as-pects of North Greenland, and with experiences, someof which are entirely new in arctic exploration. On Saturday, June 27th, we dropped anchor in theland-locked harbour of Godhavn, the chief settlementin the North Inspectorate of Danish place had not changed in the five years since Ihad seen it. No building boom had reached God- Brooklyn to McCormick Bay 57 havn, and the real-estate market was as flat as families of Inspector Andersen and GovernorCarstens were a little larger than hve years ago, andthe Inspector and Mrs. Andersen were the samegenial, hospitable, homelike couple as ever. Welearned that Hans Hendrick, the Eskimo who hadaccompanied so many expeditions, and whose autobi-ography has been published in English, had died threeyears before. With Mrs. Peary and Professor Heilprin,. A CRUISER OF THE ARCTIC WHITE SQUADRON. I called on Inspector Andersen, and the freedom ofthe place was given to the expeditions. Most of usstarted for a field day on the ice-cap peering downfrom the summit of the island. It took us four hoursof an arctic afternoon to reach the edge of the ice-cap, 2400 feet above the sea. Seating ourselves, weenjoyed the scene around and below us, a scene thatcan be duplicated nowhere but in Greenland. Almost at our feet lay the town and harbour ofGodhavn, the houses mere specks. The Kite and aDanish brig in the harbour looked like toy boats. Be-yond the town, over Disco Bay, to the south
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